Joao Miyao vs Shimon Kagiyama

Jamil Hill-Taylor vs Thiago Macedo

Jamil looked on FIRE yesterday absolutely tearing through Brandon Walensky. He's one of the favorites for the featherweight gold, let's see how he deals with the tough Macedo.

Man, Jamil's footwork is incredible. Macedo is fighting out of some tough spots here but Jamil is so aggressive with his movement and it's like he just doesn't respect his opponents as a threat. He looks in completely control no matter where they go.

Incredibly, there is no score in this match but Jamil wins via five advantages.

Don't forget brown belts are running on mats 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Those guys are killers and always a lot of fun to watch.

Jamil Hill vs Isaac Doederlein

Featherweight semifinal match: Huge start for Isaac, who dives on an arm and nearly passes. The TLI crew are going crazy. Jamil's flexible guard kicks in and he slows things down. Know how I said it looked like he didn't respect his opponents' jiu-jitsu? Isaac just earned that.

Jamil threatens the back and scores two from a 50-50 sweep. Isaac fights from bottom but Jamil stays in control and wins 2-0.

Levi Jones-Leary vs Breno Bittencourt

Slow start in this match as they both get two penalties for the double guard pull. On the restart Levi goes after it and gets the back via a nice crab ride switch, deftly avoiding Bittencourt's attempts to pull him into 50-50. That's what I like to see– rather than somebody accepting the leg game Levi goes right around it and to the back.

Middleweight QF: Chippy match between Renato Canuto and Athos Ribeiro. Canuto almost scored two froma BIG shoulder throw. It was tied 0-0, 1-1 adv but there was a penalty against Ribeiro. – watch video

Murilo Santana vs Mateus Diniz

The last time I remember seeing these two fight at Pans was in 2016 when Murilo ran over Matheus, sweeping him and mounting him, taking his back and choking him. A very different match so far this time around. Diniz scores takedown and Murilo plays exclusively from bottom, mostly closed guard. Penalties make the score 4-2 and Diniz advances.

Isaque Bahiense won 6-4 over Michael Liera Jr and is through to the final. – watch video

Adam Wardzinski scored 15-2 and won via collar choke over Fellipe Trovo of Gracie Barra and is through to the heavyweight semifinal. This is the first time he's ever competed at Pans, by the way. – watch video

Patrick Gaudio vs Aaron Tex Johnson

Fast start! Tex runs straight at Gaudio who has to play matador. He gets in underneath the legs, no secret what he's about. They go into the leg fighting and get stuck in 50-50. OK so Tex is a great leg locker, but you need to be careful giving Gaudio your feet.

Gaudio gets a pass and goes into north-south, 3-0. He mounts: 7-0 to Gaudio, but Tex finds a way out and gets on a leg, Gaudio passes again and gets another 3. Takedown. Pass. North-south choke. Gaudio is running away with this.

Winner: Gaudio via pointa 15-0

Renato Canuto vs Queixinho

Lot of fun in this scramble-fest. Canuto scores two for a shoulder throw. We almost never see Queixinho playing from the feet. Fun match, Canuto wins with two takedowns.

Mahamed Aly beats Leo Nogeuira on points and will get Tanner Rice in the super-heavyweight semifinal.

Gustavo Batista beats Rudson Mateus 2-0 in the semifinal. That means him and Hulk close out medium-heavyweight.

Leandro Lo vs Vinicius Ferreira

Alliance black belt Ferreira is nicknamed "Tractor" for his heavy top pressure. He's a longtime training partner of Bernardo Faria, a man who always had success in beating Lo with the heavy pressure passing. Ferreira taking a page out of Bernardo's book and grinding forward. 0-0, less than a minute left. If Leandro doesn't get busy he could lose a decision here. Time runs out, split decision in favor of Lo.

Fellipe Andrew is known for his footlock and triangles... and he just footlocked Fernando Reis of Alliance. He'll face Gutemberg Pereira in the super-heavyweight semifinal – watch video

Tanner Rice vs Mahamed Aly

Rice throws up a dangerous omoplata and tries to hit a straight armlock. He has the arm locked out but Mahamed escapes. Advantage for Rice.

Aly passes the open guard and gets top. Three for the pass and another two for knee ride. 5-0 to Aly. Rice recovers but Aly passes again. He goes for the same side-stomach throw he hit yesterday – he reposted our clip of it and said he always wanted to hit that technique since he saw Megaton use it!

8-0 for Mahamed Aly right now, snd he's cruising to a win. Wait– two mins left and there is a clash during a guard pull. Rice has got a bad gash on the inside of his mouth and can't continue.

Adam Wardzinski just dismantled Leandro Lo. He held off a passing blitz, got his back taken (no points for crossed feet) but escaped. Wardzinski swept Lo, passed to mount and then took the back before choking out the legend. Incredible.

And that's it! Thanks for following along. The matches from the event are now up in our event archive. You can search for and filter to find match videos. Enjoy, there was a lot of good jiu-jitsu this weekend.

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